Now I get it! VCD and SVCD are FORMATS!! Things are making better sense now.
Thanks for the links. I've looked at both toast and mirex; now to decide whether or not to purchase so I can save $ by buying CDs instead of DVDs. I need to remember the math for determining how many disks I would need to burn on CD instead of DVD in order to pay for the software. :) Luann Lee Larson wrote: > On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:09 PM, LuAnn Johnson wrote: > >> It sounds like in order to burn a VCD or SVCD I will have to have >> Toast or something comparable. I wanted to check the price of VCDs >> and SVCDs to see if it would be worth my time to purchase Toast, but >> I couldn't find any prices for them on-line. Where can I find them? > > > You burn VCDs onto standard CD-R disks. > > The two main formats are VCD and SVCD, with SVCD being near DVD > quality. The VCD format is older and uses MPEG-1 video. SVCDs use > MPEG-2 video, just like DVDs. You can get 30-45 minutes of video on > one standard CD-R, depending on the resolution you want. > > There are other programs that can burn VCDs and SVCDs, and even some > free ones: > > Mirith [1] makes software for doing just VCD and SVCD. It's probably > the easiest way to go because it has all the tools in one bundle. I > used it for a while in demo mode and would have bought it, if Toast > had not built the SVCD mode into an upgrade. It's a nice package. > > There's a pile of free software that lets you do it. Check out this > guide [2]. Most of the free stuff has been ported over from Linux and > is pretty confusing to sort out. I used to make VCDs on Linux before > my Mac had a burner, and it was much harder than using Toast, but > worked just as well in the end. > > [1] <http://www.mireth.com/pub/mac-svcd-bdl.html> > [2] <http://homepage.mac.com/rnc/> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
